Originally Posted by spunkmister

China invaded Tibet in 1950 or 51 cant remember off the top of my head, and as you can imagine the Chinese army was too much a force for the Tibetians to resist.

In the last 10 or more years China has built major railways, roads etc into Tibet and pretty much has started to flood it with northern Chinese, and as a Tibetian you are a second class citizen and add that to the opression of their religion and culture and you get some pissed off people.

Oh and chanting "Free Tibet" is currently the in thing...